2022 edition

After a two-year pause, the FIFEQ-MTL team is very happy to have you back for a festive, warm and intimate edition with free screenings until May 15, 2022 that once again highlight the most recent gems  of international ethnographic cinema. And this, in several major cultural venues in Montreal: McCord Museum, Cinéma Public and Cinéma Moderne

Come and meet us on Wednesday, May 11 at Ausgang Plaza starting at 7 p.m. for a cinephile and musical evening that will launch the FIFEQ-MTL festivities!

Entry ticket : 10$

Three contemporary cinematographic outlooks on ritual practices that are marked by a great symbolic richness. These three observational documentaries, borrowing the theme of rituality from anthropologists, allow a reflection on the value of rituals in our societies.

At the edges of reality and of the imaginary, of reality and of fantasy, these two striking works shake up our references and our perception of truth. By illustrating censored imaginings of an Other reality and by proposing an alternative way of narrating History, The Fantastic and A Storm Was Coming caress and push the limits of what we consider real.

These four short films, all directed by women, offer different narratives of the intimate: different ways of presenting what is interior, personal – what the outside world does not usually encounter. These intimate films are soft, frank, warm, and humorous.

Following the screenings, a discussion will be held with the protagonist of the film Queen Of Chaos, Thérèse Bélisle, as well as the director of the film Interwoven, Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux, and possibly members of her team.

Session 1

– Inniun ueshkat mak anutshish, Mary Menie Mark, 2020 (Canada)
Canada | 5 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

– Queen of Chaos, Kaila Bolton, 2020 (Canada)
Canada | 14 min | Original Version, English and French Subtitles

– I Don’t Feel At Home Anywhere Anymore, Viv Li, 2021 (in China, Belgium)
Belgium | 16 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

– Les entremailles/Interwoven, Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux, 2022
Canada | 23 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

This is women’s cinema. They are the main protagonists, but also the directors, and their gaze, their female gaze, pierces the screen. It is a velvety, courageous, carnal, and intelligent gaze, a multiple and clear-sighted gaze that not only sheds light on subjects that are too rarely addressed, but also approaches them with finesse and originality.

Session 2

A Rifle and a Bag, Cristina Hanes, Arya Rothe, Isabella Rinaldi, 2020 (in India)
Inde / India | 89 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

This is women’s cinema. They are the main protagonists, but also the directors, and their gaze, their female gaze, pierces the screen. It is a velvety, courageous, carnal, and intelligent gaze, a multiple and clear-sighted gaze that not only sheds light on subjects that are too rarely addressed, but also approaches them with finesse and originality.

Following the screenings, a debate with the public will be led by Ginger Le Pêcheur, director member of Réalisatrices Équitables and coordinator at Colonelle Films.

Session 3

– Crotch Stories, Myleine Guiard-Schmid, 2021
Belgium  | 30 min | Original French Version

– Ain’t No Time for Women, Sarra El-Abed, 2020 (in Tunisia )
Canada | 19 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

Three cinematographic works of exceptional beauty highlighting the poetries that make up an everyday life, a mythical corpus, or a natural environment; three films revealing the poetries of reality. In these films, the subjectivity of the ethnographers is revealed through cinematographic effects, and the observer becomes a participant, intoxicated by their senses.

Session 1

– The Fourfold, Alisi Telengut, 2020 (in Canada, Germany)
Germany | 7 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

– Talamanca, David Marino, 2020 (in Costa Rica)
United Kingdom | 21 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

– Berg, Joke Olthaar, 2021 (en Slovénie / in Slovenia)
Netherlands | 79 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

Is it possible to film migration in a fair, respectful, and sensitive way? Can the act of filming real experiences of migration – especially “irregular” ones – be ethical? These striking ethnographic films, with their rich reflexivity, both ask this question. Indeed, it is the impossibility of filming the reality of migration that these works seem to come up against: the impossibility of capturing the real in a respectful way, but also the impossibility of doing justice to the complexities and depths of these real experiences. Two favorite, must-see films.

Following the screenings, a discussion on conventional and alternative representations of migrants will be held in the presence of the directors of the film Elsewhere Everywhere, Isabelle Ingold and Viviane Mauer, and several experts on this theme, including including Emanuel Licha, documentary filmmaker and associate professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Montreal / Tiohtià:ke and Amandine Hamon, a doctoral candidate in Communications at University of Montréal.

Session 2

– The Forest | Lo Thivolle et Ouahib Mortada, 2020 (in Morocco)
France | 16 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

– Elsewhere, Everywhere, Isabelle Ingold et Vivianne Perelmuter, 2020 (Iran)
Belgium | 63 min | Original Version, English Subtitles

This thematic day specially dedicated to indigenous cinematographic creation will focus on indigenous solidarities in different national contexts and how they target cinematographic projects that have indigenous resurgences as their core from a political and cultural point of view. The Indigenous day will revolve around two specific screenings: a screening of short films made in different parts of the world thanks to the workshops promoted by Wapikoni mobile. The second will be a screening of the film DƏNE YI’INJETL-The Scattering of Man (2021, RIDM selection): a collaborative film by the Tsay Keh Dene Nation of British Columbia, directed by Luke Gleeson. The film is a complex examination of the consequences wrought on the Tsay Keh Dene by the construction of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in the Rockies in the late 1960s.

SCREENING OF SHORT FILMS FROM WAPIKONI MOBILE 

Session 1

– The Hidden Community | The Bedouin Community of Sateh al-Bahar, 2021 (Palestine), Canada | 6 min | Without dialog

– TAIÑ RVPV, Escuela de Cine y Comunicación Mapuce del Ayja Rewe Budi | 2021 (Chile), Canada | 11 min | Original version with French subtitles

– Series of other “surprise” shorts films from Wapikoni Mobile

Session 2

– DƏNE YI’INJETL | The Scattering of Man, Luke Gleeson, 2021 (in Canada)
Canada | 75 min | Original version with French Subtitles